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In January 2024, WFP Executive Director Cindy H. McCain took on the role of the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Champion on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH). The attached mid-year update provides the latest information on the Executive Director’s actions and WFP’s progress toward fulfilling the key Championship priorities.

WFP and UNICEF jointly implement the Responding to COVID-19 through Social Protection Systems in the Sahel project as support to the Governments of Mali, Mauritania and Niger to respond to the immediate massive needs generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and other shocks through cash transfers and complementary services as well as to strengthen overall national capacities to adapt and build more shoc

Established in 2001 under the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Adaptation Fund finances adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. “The climate crisis is a major driver of hunger,” says Saliha Dobardzic, Lead for Programming and Innovation at the Adaptation Fund.

The project’s research initiatives will cover over 9,000 households, providing the government of Timor-Leste with critical data needed to address concerning rates of food insecurity.

The Stampriet project, supported by the Government of Namibia and Republic of Brazil, has yielded remarkable outcomes since its establishment. The school now produces approximately 5 000 chicken eggs monthly, a variety of nutritious vegetables and fully funds the salaries of two gardeners from the sale of fresh produce and poultry products.

“Communities in Mali contribute very little to the climate crisis, yet the impacts are forcing them into a food crisis,” says Eric Perdison, WFP Country Director in Mali.

The World Food Programme has deployed food and logistics equipment to support communities devastated by the earthquake that struck near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday morning (22 June).  At least 1,000 people have reportedly been killed, with 2,000 others injured, around the epicentre of the magnitude 5.9 quake, 27 miles from the city of Khost. 

WFP continues to deliver emergency food assistance in Haiti alongside programmes that help tackle root causes of hunger. However, the recent uptick in violence has prevented WFP from reaching more than 370,000 of most food insecure Haitians since early February.

Conducted between March 2021 and February 2022, the evaluation assessed WFP’s strategic positioning and contributions to strategic outcomes (SOs); efficiency and factors that explain performance; and the extent to which WFP was able to respond to emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic. It concluded that: Overall assessment: The evaluation revealed specific contributions to each of t

It covers WFP activities implemented between 2018 and mid-2021 including WFP’s strategic positioning, its effectiveness in contributing to strategic outcomes, the efficiency of CSP implementation and factors explaining WFP’s performance. The evaluation concluded that: WFP remained a key humanitarian actor in the country, and the CSP framework facilitated its strategic positioning in socia